🚨This is an edited version of an earlier livestream🚨

Ship Hits Brooklyn Bridge
May 18, 2025

In this episode, Sal Mercogliano — a maritime historian at Campbell University (@campbelledu) and former merchant mariner — discusses the Mexican Navy sail training ship Cuauhtemoc's allision with the Brooklyn Bridge and what may have caused the accident.

1⃣ Examine the videos
2⃣ Was Cuauhtémoc engine going astern?
3⃣ Roll of the tugboat Charles McAllister

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